Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: Training and Practice

The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated. With few exceptions, statistical studies have consistently failed to show that any form of psychotherapy is followed by significantly more improvement than would be caused by the mere passage of an equivalent period of time. Despite this, practitioners of various psychotherapeutic schools have remained firmly convinced that their methods are effective. Many recipients of these forms of treatment also believe that they are being helped.
The series of investigations reported in this impressive book resolve this paradoxical state of affairs. The investigators have overcome two major obstacles to progress in the past--lack of agreement on measures of improvement and difficulty of measuring active ingredients of the psychotherapy relationship. The inability of therapists of different theoretical persuasions to agree on criteria of improvement has made comparison of the results of different forms of treatment nearly impossible. The authors have solved this intractable problem by using a wide range of improvement measures and showing that, regardless of measures used in different studies, a significantly higher proportion of results favor their hypothesis than disregard it.
Overall, this book represented a major advance at the time of its original publication and is of continuing importance. The research findings resolve some of the most stubborn research problems in psychotherapy, and the training program based on them points the way toward overcoming the shortage of psychotherapists.

Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy

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Robert R. Carkhuff

Charles B. Truax

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

PPD: Productive Program Development

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HRD Press, Inc.

The Art of Helping begins by tracing the evolution of helping. It then presents a functional helping model, describing the contributions of both the helpee and helper. The body of the book teaches observable and measurable helping skills. Finally, Helping IV points to the future of helping. It culminates with a look at the future growth and development of helpers. It offers the skills we need to be effective helpers in the Age of Information.

The Art of Helping VI, Student Workbook

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Art of Helping VI: Trainer's Guide

Don Benoit

Human Resources Development Press

The organization as the source of new capital development — Marketplace Capital Development (MCD), Organizational Capital Development (OCD), Human Capital Development (HCD), Information Capital Development (ICD), Mechanical Capital Development (mCD).

The Possibilities Organization

Bernard G. Berenson

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Human Resource Development Pr

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Politics & Social Sciences

Stephen J. Sampson

John D. Blakeman

Social Sciences

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Social Intelligence Skills for Law Enforcement Officers

H R D Press

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Social Intelligence Skills for Correctional Managers

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Social Intelligence Skills for Government Supervisors/Managers

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Social Intelligence Skills for Sheriff's Department Supervisors/Managers

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